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title="Lions' Gate is located in Jerusalem"><img alt="Lions' Gate is located in Jerusalem" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png/240px-Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png/360px-Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png/480px-Jerusalem_Old_City_location_map.png 2x" data-file-width="2771" data-file-height="3391" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:24.779%;left:91.145%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lions' Gate"><img alt="Lions' Gate" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/7px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="7" height="7" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/11px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/14px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location in Old Jerusalem</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alternative names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">St Stephen's Gate, Bab Sitti Maryam (lit. 'Gate of My Lady Mary')</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">General information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Town or city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Jerusalem Old City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" title="Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem)">Muslim Quarter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Lions%27_Gate&params=31_46_51_N_35_14_13_E_region:IL_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°46′51″N</span> <span class="longitude">35°14′13″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.78083°N 35.23694°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.78083; 35.23694</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Completed</th><td class="infobox-data">1538/9 (<a href="/wiki/Hijri_year" title="Hijri year">AH 945</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Renovated</th><td class="infobox-data">2012<sup id="cite_ref-renov_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-renov-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#ededed">Dimensions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other dimensions</th><td class="infobox-data">Height: 13.7 m (45 ft)<sup id="cite_ref-IAAconserv_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IAAconserv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Lions' Gate</b> (<a href="/wiki/Hebrew_language" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>: <span lang="he" dir="rtl">שער האריות</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew" title="Romanization of Hebrew">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">Sha'ar ha-Arayot</i></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Lions' Gate', <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">باب الأسباط</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Arabic" title="Romanization of Arabic">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Arabic-language romanization"><i lang="ar-Latn">Bab al-Asbat</i></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> </small>'Gate of the Tribes'), also <b>St Stephen's Gate</b>, is one of the seven open <a href="/wiki/Gates_of_the_Old_City_of_Jerusalem" title="Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem">Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem</a>. It leads into the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" title="Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem)">Muslim Quarter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Jerusalem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Old City (Jerusalem)">Old City.</a> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lions%27_Gate&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The start of the traditional <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> observance of the last walk of <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> from prison to <a href="/wiki/Crucifixion" title="Crucifixion">crucifixion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Via_Dolorosa" title="Via Dolorosa">Via Dolorosa</a>, begins at the Lions' Gate, called St Stephen's Gate by Christians. Carved into the wall above the gate are four lions, two on the left and two on the right. <a href="/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent" title="Suleiman the Magnificent">Suleiman the Magnificent</a> had the carvings made to celebrate the Ottoman defeat of the <a href="/wiki/Mamluks" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluks">Mamluks</a> in 1517. Legend has it that Suleiman's predecessor <a href="/wiki/Selim_I" title="Selim I">Selim I</a> dreamed of lions that were going to eat him because of his plans to level the city. He was spared only after promising to protect the city by building a wall around it. This led to the lion becoming the heraldic symbol of Jerusalem.<sup id="cite_ref-JMOC_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMOC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="Murphy-O'Connor does write that, but I'm pretty sure Israel chose the symbol of Judah, not Baybars' leopards, being happy to leave everybody to see what they please. I now looked up "Emblem of Jerusalem" and it's clearly the "lion of Judah". (January 2022)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Lions%27_Gate#Selim's_lions_as_city_emblem_-_really?_When?" title="Talk:Lions' Gate">discuss</a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Historian <a href="/wiki/Moshe_Sharon" title="Moshe Sharon">Moshe Sharon</a> notes the similarity of the sculpted felines to similar pairs at <a href="/wiki/Jisr_Jindas" title="Jisr Jindas">Jisr Jindas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Qasr_al-Basha" title="Qasr al-Basha">Qasr al-Basha</a> in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza</a>. All represent the same <a href="/wiki/Mamluk_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Mamluk Egypt">Mamluk</a> sultan, <a href="/wiki/Baibars" class="mw-redirect" title="Baibars">Baibars</a>. Sharon estimates that they all date to approximately 1273 C.E.<sup id="cite_ref-Sharon_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sharon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The gate is part of the city's extant walls, built by <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> Sultan Suleiman in 1538. The walls stretch for approximately 4.5 kilometers (2.8 mi) and rise to a height of 5–15 meters (16–49 ft), with a thickness of 3 meters (9.8 feet).<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All together, the Old City walls contain 43 surveillance towers and 11 gates, seven of which are presently open. </p><p>In 1967, it was through this gate that Israeli paratroopers broke into the Old City of Jerusalem, occupied, along with the rest of <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> and the whole <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 230px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 228px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Detail of Lions' Gate carvings, actually leopards[8] (panthers).[4]"><img alt="Detail of Lions' Gate carvings, actually leopards[8] (panthers).[4]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg/342px-Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg" decoding="async" width="228" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg/513px-Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg/683px-Loewentor_Leoparden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1821" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Detail of Lions' Gate carvings, actually <a href="/wiki/Leopard_(heraldry)" title="Leopard (heraldry)">leopards</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (panthers).<sup id="cite_ref-JMOC_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMOC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 160.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 158.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Indian_and_British_guards,_St._Stephen%27s_Gate,_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="British imperial troops from India and Britain guard the gate in 1920"><img alt="British imperial troops from India and Britain guard the gate in 1920" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg/238px-Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg" decoding="async" width="159" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg/357px-Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg/476px-Indian_and_British_guards%2C_St._Stephen%27s_Gate%2C_Jerusalem_LOC_matpc.00756.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5134" data-file-height="3887" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">British imperial troops from <a href="/wiki/British_Indian_Army" title="British Indian Army">India</a> and <a href="/wiki/British_Armed_Forces#Empire_and_World_Wars" title="British Armed Forces">Britain</a> guard the gate in 1920</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lions%27_Gate&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gates_of_the_Old_City_of_Jerusalem" title="Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem">Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lions%27_Gate&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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Mary of the Latins</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Templum_Domini" title="Templum Domini">Templum Domini</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Church" title="Melkite Greek Catholic Church">Melkite Catholic</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Melkite_Catholic_Patriarchate_of_Antioch" title="Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch">Patriarch</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Annunciation,_Jerusalem" title="Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation, Jerusalem">Cathedral of the Annunciation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church" title="Armenian Catholic Church">Armenian Catholic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Greek_Orthodox(Patriarch)" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem">Greek Orthodox</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem">Patriarch</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Saint_John_the_Baptist,_Jerusalem" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Saint John the Baptist, Jerusalem">Church of Saint John the Baptist</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches" title="Oriental Orthodox Churches">Oriental<br />Orthodox</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Orthodox</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Armenian_Patriarchate_of_Jerusalem" title="Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem">Patriarch</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_James,_Jerusalem" title="Cathedral of Saint James, Jerusalem">Cathedral of Saint James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Archangels,_Jerusalem" title="Church of the Holy Archangels, Jerusalem">Church of the Holy Archangels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Toros" title="Church of Saint Toros">Church of Saint Toros</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church">Syriac Orthodox</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_Mark" title="Monastery of Saint Mark">Monastery of Saint Mark</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Church" title="Coptic Orthodox Church">Coptic Orthodox</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Coptic_Orthodox_Archdiocese_of_Jerusalem" title="Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of Jerusalem">Archbishop</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deir_es-Sultan" title="Deir es-Sultan">Deir es-Sultan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Episcopal_Church_in_Jerusalem_and_the_Middle_East" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_in_Jerusalem_and_the_Middle_East" title="Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East">Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Jerusalem" title="Christ Church, Jerusalem">Christ Church</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Protestant_Church_in_Germany" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Protestant_Church_in_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Church in Germany">Protestant Church in Germany</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Redeemer,_Jerusalem" title="Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem">Church of the Redeemer</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><b>Areas, quarters</b> <div role="img" class="noresize" style="width: 334px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg/334px-Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="334" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg/501px-Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg/668px-Jerusalem_Old_City_blank_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="392" data-file-height="370" /></a></span> <div style="position:absolute; left:74px; top:142px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Quarter" title="Christian Quarter">Christian<br />Quarter</a></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:104px; top:172px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Muristan" title="Muristan">Muristan</a></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:204px; top:62px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Muslim_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" title="Muslim Quarter (Jerusalem)">Muslim<br />Quarter</a></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:79px; top:222px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Quarter" title="Armenian Quarter">Armenian<br />Quarter</a></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:174px; top:202px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Quarter_(Jerusalem)" title="Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem)">Jewish<br />Quarter</a></div></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:244px; top:146px"><div style="line-height:0.9em;"><a href="/wiki/Temple_Mount" title="Temple Mount">Temple<br />Mount</a></div></div> </div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Gates_of_the_Old_City_of_Jerusalem" title="Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem">Gates</a></b><br />1. <a href="/wiki/Jaffa_Gate" title="Jaffa Gate">Jaffa</a> 2. <a href="/wiki/Zion_Gate" title="Zion Gate">Zion</a> 3. <a href="/wiki/Dung_Gate" title="Dung Gate">Dung</a> 4. <a href="/wiki/Golden_Gate_(Jerusalem)" title="Golden Gate (Jerusalem)">Golden</a> 5. <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lions</a> 6. <a href="/wiki/Herod%27s_Gate" title="Herod's Gate">Herod</a><br />7. <a href="/wiki/Damascus_Gate" title="Damascus Gate">Damascus</a> 8. <a href="/wiki/New_Gate" title="New Gate">New</a> (<i>Double, Single, Tanners<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span></i>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Al-Mawazin" title="Al-Mawazin">Al-Mawazin</a> </p> <b>Surrounding streets, roads</b>: <div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Highway_60_(Israel%E2%80%93Palestine)#Highway_60_in_Jerusalem" title="Highway 60 (Israel–Palestine)">Highway 60</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jaffa_Road" title="Jaffa Road">Jaffa Road</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Route_417_(Israel)#Jericho_Road" class="mw-redirect" title="Route 417 (Israel)">Jericho</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Ma%27ale_HaShalom" title="Ma'ale HaShalom">Ma'ale HaShalom</a></li><li>Ofel</li><li>Sultan Suleiman</li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_in_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem in Islam">Islam</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni Islamic</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Grand_Mufti_of_Jerusalem" title="Grand Mufti of Jerusalem">Grand Mufti</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Al-Aqsa" title="Al-Aqsa">Al-Aqsa</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Islamic_Waqf" class="mw-redirect" title="Jerusalem Islamic Waqf">Waqf</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qibli_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Qibli Mosque">Qibli Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_the_Ascension" title="Dome of the Ascension">Dome of the Ascension</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_the_Chain" title="Dome of the Chain">Dome of the Chain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_al-Khidr" title="Dome of al-Khidr">Dome of al-Khidr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_al-Khalili" title="Dome of al-Khalili">Dome of al-Khalili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_the_Prophet" title="Dome of the Prophet">Dome of the Prophet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock" title="Dome of the Rock">Dome of the Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dome_of_Yusuf" title="Dome of Yusuf">Dome of Yusuf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrasa_Al-Ashrafiyya" class="mw-redirect" title="Madrasa Al-Ashrafiyya">Madrasa Al-Ashrafiyya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Stables" title="Solomon's Stables">Marwani Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other mosques</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Buraq_Mosque" title="Al-Buraq Mosque">Al-Buraq Mosque</a></li> <li>Al-Yaqoubi Mosque</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Khanqah_al-Salahiyya_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Khanqah al-Salahiyya Mosque">Al-Khanqah al-Salahiyya Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Omar_(Jerusalem)" title="Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem)">Mosque of Omar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Dissi_Mosque" title="Al Dissi Mosque">Al Dissi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidna_Omar_Mosque" title="Sidna Omar Mosque">Sidna Omar Mosque</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_in_Judaism" title="Jerusalem in Judaism">Judaism</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Sephardic_Jews" title="Sephardic Jews">Sephardic</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" title="Ashkenazi Jews">Ashkenazi</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Chief_Rabbi_of_Jerusalem" title="Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem">Chief Rabbis</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Wall" title="Southern Wall">Southern Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Wall" title="Western Wall">Western Wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Wall_Tunnel" title="Western Wall Tunnel">Western Wall Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Western_Wall" title="Little Western Wall">Little Western Wall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism" title="Orthodox Judaism">Orthodox<br />Jewish</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ramban_Synagogue" title="Ramban Synagogue">Ramban Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ari_Synagogue" class="mw-redirect" title="Ari Synagogue">Ari Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Sephardic_Synagogues" title="Four Sephardic Synagogues">Four Sephardic Synagogues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohr_ha-Chaim_Synagogue" title="Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue">Ohr ha-Chaim Synagogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tzuf_Dvash_Synagogue" title="Tzuf Dvash 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